The upcoming Supreme Court case concerning St Isidore of Seville Catholic virtual school poses critical questions about the blend of religion and education in America. With rising Christian nationalism, a ruling favoring religious charter schools could redefine the separation of church and state and affect various aspects of civic life. Law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett, a close friend of Justice Barrett, finds herself at the center of this pivotal legal moment which could reshape public education as we know it, following the state supreme court’s ruling against the school.
Fast forward another five years. Garnett, now a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, is about to have her own supreme court moment.
This could be an earthquake for American public education, said Samuel Abrams, who directs the International Partnership for the Study of Educational Privatization at University of Colorado, Boulder.
If the supreme court rules in favor of overturning that decision, the church-state cleavage will disappear. That's a dramatic development for the first amendment.
In a sign of the case's gravity, the Trump administration filed a brief in support of St Isidore last week, arguing: A state may not put schools, parents or students to the choice of forgoing religious exercise or.
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